atomic

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1、a- "not" + tom- + -ic.
2、字面含義：uncut, indivisible. => indivisible particle.
3、最初，人們認為原子就是宇宙中不可分割的最小微粒，因此就給它取名為“atom”了，當然后來證明這種認為是錯誤的。

atomic (adj.): 1670s as a philosophical term (see atomistic); scientific sense dates from 1811, from atom + -ic. Atomic number is from 1821; atomic mass is from 1848. Atomic energy first recorded 1906 in modern sense (as intra-atomic energy from 1903).
March, 1903, was an historic date for chemistry. It is, also, as we shall show, a date to which, in all probability, the men of the future will often refer as the veritable beginning of the larger powers and energies that they will control. It was in March, 1903, that Curie and Laborde announced the heat-emitting power of radium. [Robert Kennedy Duncan, "The New Knowledge," 1906]
Atomic bomb first recorded 1914 in writings of H.G. Wells, who thought of it as a bomb "that would continue to explode indefinitely."
When you can drop just one atomic bomb and wipe out Paris or Berlin, war will have become monstrous and impossible. [S. Strunsky, "Yale Review," January 1917]
Atomic Age is from 1945. Atomical is from 1640s.

1. Scientists transmuted matter into pure energy and exploded the first atomic bomb.: 科學家將物質轉化為純粹的能量，引爆了第一顆原子彈。

3. They were monitoring the upper air to collect evidence of atomic explosions.: 他們正在檢測高空空氣以收集原子爆炸的證據.

4. We should take part in the peaceful uses of atomic energy.: 我們應該參與原子能的和平應用.

5. The atomic reactor generates enormous amounts of thermal energy.: 原子反應堆發出大量的熱能.